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Looking at the Fink Tank figures for the end of last season, a reader asked
how we could give Manchester United a 100 per cent chance of qualifying for
the Champions League. I explained that, by this point, their qualification
was a mathematical certainty, and that was how.

The question was nevertheless a good one. How sure can we be of our figures on
league position? The question seems particularly good this week because Dr
Henry Stott, Dr Mark Latham, Gabriella Lebrecht and I are looking at the
Championship. And last year, at roughly this point, we concluded that
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